Library Centers

Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini-lessons that cover topics from bears books and dinosaurs to natural resources rockets and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g. books tapes CD-ROMs the Internet) giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; use the library catalog dictionaries encyclopedias and CD-ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research build a bibliography create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center the author provides reproducible instruction cards a list of materials and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended-observation checklists coaching and discussion presentations celebrations and formal checklists to be